Audrey Niffenegger Quotes - Page 3

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• When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

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  Together, Mets, Because I Can

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.118, Zola Books

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• ...and I suddenly feel that Henry is there, incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hand on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him - Clare

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  Rain, Hands, Needs

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.57, Zola Books

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• Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

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  Names, Solitude, Mind

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

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  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

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  Pain, Self, Waiting

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• Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

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  Hair, Soul, Creatures

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

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  Mean, Getting Older, Way

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

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  Dream, Morning, Rap

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

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  Country, Sweet, Home

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.

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  Laughter, Spring, Fall

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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  Men, Attention, Entering

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

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  Taken, Knitting, Bored

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.

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  Past, Thinking, Interesting

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.

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  Usual, Answers

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

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  Beautiful, Morning, Book

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.10, Zola Books

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

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  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

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  Tabula Rasa, Needs, Fresh Start

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

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• When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

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  Hurt, Grateful, Doe

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

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  Gone, Return, Sometimes

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• one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

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  Mother, Opportunity, Alive

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

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  Over You, Feelings, Different

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• The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.

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  Wings, Ideas, Drawing

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• The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.

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  Home, Train Of Thought, Knitting

  "The Time Traveller’s Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• Do you ever miss him? Every day. Every minute. Every minute, she says. Yes, it's that way, isn't it?

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  Missing, Way, Minutes

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.96, Zola Books

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• The cure might be worse than the problem

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  Might, Problem, Cures

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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